Hate to burst your bubble, but I have been a believing Christian for over 40 years, and my IQ has actually been measured higher now than it was when I was in High School. My husband has more qualifications than I can even remember now, and is doing his Masters in Arts (Religion) at the moment.

Higher level thinking people frequently come to trust critical thinking skills that can be verified and mistrust things like religious dogma that requires blind faith and seriously lacks credibility. When people pray for someone to survive a disease and they survive then they say "God saved them". But when those people die it's because "God works in mysterious ways". Believing that prayer does ANYTHING is something we wish was true but it is not. Not Jesus or any other religious figure is going to ride into town and take anybody off to prosperity, power, and happiness. Only YOU have the power to improve your life. Pray if you like but if YOU don't make the effort to improve your life, it's not going to happen.

3-4-2017 It has nothing to do with intelligence, only believing. In the 19th century Americans started moving west and three institutions went with them. There was vaudeville, traveling entertainment. There was lyceum, traveling education and culture. And there was the itinerant preacher, offering a new style of preaching called "hell fire and brim stone". It was very entertaining, only loosely based on scripture, and pastors didn't even try to compete. Instead they switched to preaching public morality and philosophy. Eventually an entire generation grew up not knowing the first thing about the religion they claimed to believe. That is why most Christian churches don't teach doctrines, and most members don't know what they are supposed to believe.

Christianity and other monotheistic programs SEVERELY limit the knowledge of their followers, to dumb them down as cattle. These programs are used as tools to keep people from real spiritual knowledge, and the power in the hands of those at the top. Satan is not "evil" as depicted in the Bible, and He and the other Gods (as in the Greek Gods etc) love humanity. Learn the TRUTH: www.joyofsatan.org

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